Word: tranquillity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some White House aides, trekking to the relatively tranquil Far East was an unwelcome diversion from these more pressing concerns. Groused one Reagan lieutenant: "It's a real pain." But there was cogent reason to demonstrate U.S. solidarity with allies that it can count on. The Reagan Administration in addition hoped that the prod of the presidential visit would prompt some action on the serious trade disputes between the U.S. and Japan, and in that respect Reagan could claim some accomplishment before Air Force One even landed at Tokyo's Haneda Airport. In advance of the trip, Japan...
...recent findings of a German mathematical disrupted the tranquil summers of his peers at Harvard and MIT who pushed aside their own research and met informally to verity whether he had solved a problem that had been mathematicians for more than 60 years...
...Rica is a land of anxiety. It is, for one thing, virtually bankrupt. In the past two years, the colón has been devalued by almost 600%, and the country shows few signs of being able to repay an estimated $4.2 billion in foreign debt. While still relatively tranquil, Costa Rica has begun to experience tremors of violence that in some cases can be traced to the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua, whose rise Costa Ricans enthusiastically abetted. Providing sanctuary and financial support for the Sandinistas during their 1979 revolution was a top priority of Monge's predecessor...
...might be the site for a villainous Ian Fleming scheme wherein a Dr. No or a Goldfinger concocts a plan to conquer the world, only to be thwarted in the end by a quick-thinking James Bond. The caves in the Kansas City area actually serve a far more tranquil purpose: commerce. More than 3,000 people are at work for 170 companies 110 ft. to 200 ft. below the gently rolling scene on the surface...
...racial tension seethes close to the town's tranquil surface. Thousands of migrant farm workers, mostly Chicano, are left unemployed each winter because it sometimes gets too cold to grow the apples and lettuce they pick for a living Chicano-Anglo animosity frequently bubbles over into violence, and even murder. For its size, the city has one of the highest crime rates in the country...